Man Charged with Murder of Heights Woman Hangs Self in Prison

The man allegedly responsible for shooting a Chicago Heights woman in the head and dumping her body in the trunk of a car committed suicide in his prison cell, Sun-Times Media reports. 

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“As far as I’m concerned, I’m glad,” the victim's grandmother Sandra Joyce, told the Sun-Times Media. “I prayed every day he would take his life, and he did.”

Danielle Dennis-Towne, 18, was killed by Enrico Mascaro two years ago. She had been in her grandmother Sandra's custody since her parents died when she was 5 years old. She was an honors student at Bloom Trail High School and commander of the school's Navy Junior ROTC program.

Mascaro reportedly hanged himself sometime Sunday evening in the North Carolina prison where he was being detained.

Joyce was scheduled to testify in Mascaro's trial come November.

“I’m glad it’s over with. It’s not the way I expected it to be,” Joyce told Sun-Times Media. “It’s a sad and bittersweet moment. It’s like we are walking around saying, ‘What do we do now?’ ”

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